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The Census Bureau's advance report on June retail sales showed a year-over-year gain of 6.6% and a month-over-month increase of 0.5%. The U.S. economy continues to rock along.
Downtown Detroit has had a renaissance. Much of the balance of the 139 square miles inside the city limits is blighted by poverty, a shrinking population and thousands of houses that need to be...
Meet Ames, Iowa, which has the lowest unemployment rate among all U.S. cities at 1.5%. This universe includes the 388 metro areas measured by the BLS. Based on May numbers, Ames is only one of the...
U.S. spending on new construction rose month over month in May and is up 4.5% year over year. Private spending on residential construction is up 6.4% year over year.
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Monday morning that sales of new homes in May rose more than expected.
New residential construction rose to an 11-year high in May with U.S. builders beginning construction on 1.35 million new housing units.
The Census Bureau reported Thursday that year-over-year retail sales soared nearly 6% in May. With only a couple of exceptions, sales in every category rose last month.
The Census Bureau reported Wednesday that new home sales dipped slightly month over month in April but rose nearly 12% year over year. Sales of homes price below $300,000 rose by six points as did...
New housing starts posted a slim year-over-year gain in April, but fell sharply over an upwardly revised March total and missed the consensus estimate.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported a second consecutive month of retail sales growth, but a large part of that resulted from higher pump prices for gasoline.
New orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose by 1.6% in March and were up 7.7% year over year for the first 3 months of 2018. Transportation goods, particularly commercial planes, lead the gains.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday morning that new homes sold in the United States in March were higher than the prior month and nearly 9% higher than March of last year.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday morning that new housing construction was up nearly 11% year over year in March. New single-family home construction dipped month over month however.
The advance estimate on retail sales for March was higher than economists' consensus estimates largely on the strength on auto sales.
New construction barely rose sequentially in February, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but year-over-year spending was up more than 4%.